As the late Robbie Robertson told Rolling Stone in February 2023, the Band guitarist and songwriter was finally getting around to completing one of two planned sequels to his 2016 memoir, Testimony . The second book, he said, would chronicle his life and work immediately after the Band’s final concert and movie, The Last Waltz . “I’m deep in on that,” he said of the project at the time. “I’m now going to be able to focus more clearly on making headway with that.”

Six months later, Robertson unexpectedly died , but the book he was working on, Insomnia , is being readied for publication on Nov. 11. As promised, the memoir focuses on the years 1977 to 1980, when Robertson became close pals and housemates with director Martin Scorsese, more entrenched in the Hollywood community

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